Key concepts and tools

Information about key concepts pertaining to Guardium administration.

Queries and reports
Guardium queries describe a set of information obtained from the collected data. Each query has a corresponding report with the same name.
Access control
Guardium provides access maps as a way to conveniently show data access between database clients and database servers.
User roles
A role defines a group of Guardium users who share the same access privileges.
Groups
Guardium supports the grouping of elements to simplify creating and managing policies and to clarify the presentation of reports.
Data archive and purge
Data Archive backs up data that has been captured by a Guardium system. When configuring Data Archive, data purge criteria may also be specified.
Guardium Installation Manager
The Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) is used to install and maintain Guardium components on managed systems.

Parent topic: Getting started